Knoxville, TN (WOKI) The Tunnel to Towers foundation will be paying off Knox County Deputy Tucker Blakely’s mortgage. Twenty-nine year-old Blakely died after responding to a domestic call Sunday night. Tunnel to Towers is an organization that pays off mortgages for families of officers who die in the line of duty or pass away from…… MORE
Rockwood, TN (WOKI) UPDATE: Officials with the Roane County Sheriff’s Office say the incident is being investigated as an overdose due to heroin and fentanyl being found inside the home. The sheriff’s office is working to find out where the drugs came from. ORIGINAL STORY: An investigation is underway in Roane county after three people…… MORE
An investigation is underway by Knoxville Police following a deadly shooting in the Western Heights area. KPD responding to UT Medical Center last night (Wednesday) for a shooting victim, identified as 47 year-old Dorian Steeley, who was brought to the hospital by car and was pronounced dead. Police found the crime scene was in the…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Officers with the Knox County Sheriff’s Office take a suspect into custody after descending upon the West Hills area Wednesday afternoon in response to a domestic call on Mallard Bay Drive. KCSO officials say deputies responded to a situation on Mallard Bay Drive, but the suspect had left by the time they…… MORE
Tennessee OSHA officials are investigating the death of a worker in Powell. TOSHA officials were notified yesterday that a worker died in a construction site in the Mockingbird Meadows Drive area. An investigator went to the scene to look into the circumstances that led to the worker’s death. They say it usually takes eight to…… MORE
The Knox County Sheriff’s Department is mourning the loss of one of their own. 29 year-old Deputy Tucker Blakely died at the UT Medical Center last night after being shot in the line of duty responding to a domestic call on Denver Lane in West Knoxville Sunday night. Knox County Sheriff Tom Spangler says Officer…… MORE
An investigation is underway by TBI after a Knox County Sheriff’s Deputy suffers severe injuries and a man is dead following a West Knoxville shooting. Investigators with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation say that Deputies responded to a domestic call in the 3200 block of Denver Lane last night. Once on the scene deputies found…… MORE
Sevier County, TN (WOKI) A Sevier County man is in custody and a shooting victim is hospitalized following a two-hour standoff Friday with multiple law enforcement agencies in Sevier County. Officials with the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office say 35-year-old Eric Coates is the suspect in the shooting of 60-year-old Mark Kennard inside a home in…… MORE
Jefferson County Mayor Mark Lee Potts is arrested for DUI in Bradley County. The Tennessee Highway Patrol says Potts was found lying face down in a ditch surrounded by beer containers at the 20-mile marker on I-75 South when police arrived at the scene Wednesday night. A police report states that Potts admitted to drinking…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) A woman arrested and charged with assault for trying to fight a girl getting off a school bus is now charged with assault again for trying to run the same girl over with her SUV. Thirty-five year-old Allison Coronado was taken into custody in August for trying to fight the minor as…… MORE
